I beleive there was a round up a year or so ago. The herd seems well managed by the condition of these horses. If you do FB there are a few pages to follow and the adminstrators are great at informing.

Thanks everyone, it was such a beautiful experience photo’ing these beautiful horses.

AL, great questions. There was signage in different places along the horse loop on the BLM land and one was about the management of the horse population. They said the numbers double in four years so they use dart with contraceptives for the mares that last a year. I tried to find this online, but couldn’t find exactly what I read on the signage. The following were good links, also wilkapedia has some good info for the sand wash basin wild horses.

This link showed how many horses were managed -

Animals Gathered166Animals Returned to Home Range123Animals Treated with Birth Control14Animal Deaths1

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